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antiworld

American  
[an-tee-wurld, an-tahy-] / ˈæn tiˌwɜrld, ˈæn taɪ- /

noun

  1. Physics. Often anti-worlds. a hypothetical world composed of antimatter.


antiworld British  
/ ˈæntɪˌwɜːld /

noun

  1. a hypothetical or supposed world or universe composed of antimatter

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Etymology

Origin of antiworld

anti- + world

Example Sentences

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Such an achievement, the Columbia researchers conclude, provides strong evidence to support theories about the existence of an antiworld of stars, planets, and possibly even antipeople.

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Of course, that sort of hypothesis is merely a fantastic antiworld.

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"A new and deeper world and antiworld symmetry is now believed to hold," says Lederman, "in which the antiworld does not only have antiparticles replace particles, but also is a mirror image of our world."

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The conjectural game tangles the mind in difficulties antiworld speculations on the classics that an infinite number of monkeys might have composed on an infinite number of type writers.

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Each is the other's antiworld: Japan an exclusive, homogeneous Asian ocean-and-island realm, tribal, intricately compact, suppressive, fiercely focused; and the U.S. a giant of huge distances, expansive, messy, inclusive, wasteful, rich, individualist, multicultural, chaotically diverse.

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